Casting delay in casts with large hp(or mp?) pool changes.

[Goutan]

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Details

The issue presents as a large delay between the button press and ability beginning. Other players and NPCs stop their animations during this period and won’t move. The player log reports an ~8.5 second cast time but when viewed from a nearby character the log displays a ~4.5 second cast time. What has been tested (that I can think of – I may have done more testing. I’ve put ~30-40 hours into this):

• Both bard songs and white magic spells.
• Both Windower and Ashita.
• Ashitacast in debug mode and the proper gear swaps are being displayed.
• With no addons loaded. (including the default ones that are in ashita).
• A fresh install.
• Other computers.
• Using just equipsets and macros, I’ll include the sets below for recreation.
• Multiple different bootloaders.
• Large population/density zones and low population/density.
• All gear involved in the swap being in the same location (in this case, inventory), at the time of the cast. What hasn’t been tested:
• Retail character to see if it’s intended.

Version 30181205_0

Here are example sets and an example of a macro for recreation. Note: I have tested removing each piece in each set individually to see if there is a specific item causing the issue.

Idle: Precast: Midcast: Macro:

[59blargedy]

what spells does this encompass? is it just songs? the delay only occurs on the player side? naked or static casting does not cause this delay?

[Goutan]

It impacts all spells (to be fair, only been tested on bard but includes testing with various /whm magics). Correct, delay occurs on player side. Not sure what you're asking but... If there are no equipment swaps on the character, no delay is incurred (besides the ~.5sec inherent delay). Locked animations via gearswap don't impact the delay. Unlocked animations also don't impact the delay.

[asphodel-eden]

My bard ashitacast is having a similar issue with ~1s delay before the song begins. I only tested it with my bard songs so far. It appears to be related to the hp calculation with the precast set. If I completely remove the precast set from my ashitacast, the delay is gone. If I remove certain equipment from my precast set, the delay also disappears. Removing a bulk of my equip from the precast set (see images below) completely gets rid of the delay.

It's not related to a singular piece of equipment either. I will test out combinations of equip that may be causing this, but this is the data I have thus far.